Skeptoid

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Sinopsis

Since 2006, the weekly Skeptoid podcast has been taking on all the most popular myths and revealing the true science, true history, and true lessons we can learn from each. Free subscribers get the most recent 50 episodes, premium subscribers (skeptoid.com) can access the full archive, all ad-free.

Episodios

  • Skeptoid #486: The Flying Saucer Menace

    29/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    The true, interwoven history of flying saucers in American folklore.

  • Skeptoid #485: Holocaust Denial

    22/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    Why some people think the Holocaust never happened, and what to do about it.

  • Skeptoid #484: More Unsung Women of Science

    15/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    Some women you haven't heard of who made significant contributions to science.

  • Skeptoid #483: Unsung Women of Science

    08/09/2015 Duración: 14min

    These important scientists are virtually unknown. Let's see if we can fix that.

  • Skeptoid #482: Franklin's Cannibals

    01/09/2015 Duración: 13min

    The fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Expedition gives a valuable lesson in types of evidence.

  • Skeptoid #481: Captain Kidd's Treasure

    25/08/2015 Duración: 12min

    Think you're going to find Captain Kidd's buried treasure on the US east coast? Think again.

  • Skeptoid #480: The Nazi of Nanking

    18/08/2015 Duración: 14min

    This most unlikely of guardian angels saved hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives.

  • Skeptoid #479: Chemicals

    11/08/2015 Duración: 15min

    Chemicals are deadly, delicious, essential and basically, everything.

  • Skeptoid #478: Listener Feedback: Natural History

    04/08/2015 Duración: 12min

    Today we're going to answer questions sent in by listeners pertaining to episodes having to do with our natural world.

  • Skeptoid #477: Wag the Dogman

    28/07/2015 Duración: 13min

    They say that a half-canine cryptid stalks the woods of Northern Michigan. Are they right?

  • Skeptoid #476: The Chess-Playing Mechanical Turk

    21/07/2015 Duración: 12min

    An overview of the amazing chess playing robot of the 1700s.

  • Skeptoid #475: Listener Feedback: History vs. Pseudohistory

    14/07/2015 Duración: 12min

    Brian responds to listener feedback about past history episodes.

  • Skeptoid #474: Solfeggio Frequencies

    07/07/2015 Duración: 13min

    Certain specific sonic frequencies are not the key to love, intuition, or spiritual order.

  • Skeptoid #473: The Loveland Frog

    30/06/2015 Duración: 14min

    A series of sightings of a frog-like humanoid in the suburb of Loveland, Ohio prompts an enduring folkloric legend.

  • Skeptoid #472: Lysenko and Lesser Science Grifters

    23/06/2015 Duración: 15min

    Trofim Lysenko mixed pseudoscience and ideology to set back Soviet biology.

  • Skeptoid #471: Male Circumcision

    16/06/2015 Duración: 16min

    Infant male circumcision remains common in the United States. Today we look at the reasons and the implications.

  • Skeptoid #470: Marijuana

    09/06/2015 Duración: 15min

    In the last 50 years, marijuana has gone from menace to medicine. Which is it?

  • Skeptoid #469: Jade Helm 15

    02/06/2015 Duración: 14min

    Conspiracy theory that a military training exercise is going to lead to martial law.

  • Skeptoid #468: Listener Feedback: Fads

    26/05/2015 Duración: 13min

    Brian responds to some listener feedback concerning the topic of fads.

  • Skeptoid #467: Baby Myths

    19/05/2015 Duración: 17min

    A look at some common myths about babies and children.

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